Mashup Contest:
Student Created Video Parodies
Anu Vedantham
Director, Weigle Information Commons
University of Pennsylvania
Peter Decherney
Assistant Professor, English and Cinema Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Digital media success stories in undergraduate classrooms at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) that have emerged from the first year of the Weigle Information Commons at the Penn Libraries will be showcased in this session, focusing on the creation, organization and results of the 2007 Mashup Contest. Building on the common freshman reading of Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture, the contest brought together several entities around campus. Students created original video and mashups of commercial video to parody well-known movies. Award-winning entries will be shown, and there will be a discussion of interesting classroom assignments that have emerged from the project.
Student-created video is an interesting undergraduate assignment option at Penn, in some cases as an alternative to traditional research papers. Creative video assignments can engage students in high-level critical thinking, writing, planning, scripting and group collaboration tasks. Creative use of space, technology and collaborative assignments can engage students in new ways of acquiring knowledge.
http://wic.library.upenn.edu/workshops/mashup.html
Handout (PDF)
